[OSM-newbies] Starting with JOSM and OpenStreetMap in general

[Rick Collins]

At 04:35 AM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>Rick Collins wrote:
>
> >> We tend to think of GPS logs as being primary survey evidence, editing
> >> them beyond simply removing points breaks that assumption.
> >
> > I don't know who you are, but you sound as if you are speaking for
> > the project.  If what you are saying is true, then you are asking
> > that inaccurate data be entered rather than comparing it to maps to
> > clean it up.
>
>No, he's saying that currently, all GPS logs stored on OSM servers are
>definitely free of any rights problems. If you upload GPS logs which you
>have not personally collected with a unit, that becomes no longer
>necessarily true.

He said that points from the raw data are only culled (removed) and 
none are edited (moved).  I can't imagine that a GPS track of any 
reasonable size would not have points which need to be cleaned 
up.  If you don't, you will have inaccurate data.

Heck, I already have access to inaccurate data, Tiger, the maps that 
came with my GPS, etc.  Yet another database of poor data helps no one.